Call For Papers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 17th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin \u201cRupturing Colonial Legacies: Colonialisms and Decolonizations in Africa and the African Diaspora” The goal of the 2017 Africa Conference is to problematize historical and contemporary colonial and neo-colonial power structures in relation to Africa and the African Diaspora, as well as to (re)imagine and map out alternative futures both within and outside of these global matrices of power and domination. Thus, we invite proposals for papers, panel presentations, roundtables, and artistic works\/performances that critically engage the seen and unseen, named and unnamed global constellations of colonialism and neo-colonialism in Africa and the African Diaspora of past, present, and future.<\/p>\n As in years past, participants will be drawn from around the world. Graduate students are encouraged to attend and present papers. The conference will provide time for scholars from various disciplines and geographical locations to interact, exchange ideas, and receive feedback. Additionally, selected papers will be published in book form. Submitted papers will be assigned to particular panels according to similarities in theme, topic, discipline, or geographical location. Panel proposals (of 3-5 presenters) are especially encouraged. We invite submissions that include but are not limited to the following sub-themes and topics, treated in either historical or contemporary contexts:<\/p>\n Political and Economic Colonialisms:<\/p>\n International and transnational politics and political movements. Modernity\/transmodernity and coloniality\/decoloniality. Historical formations of race and gender and their contemporary legacies. Musical, literary\/poetic, and dramatic expression. The role of Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in historical and contemporary colonialisms. Western biomedicine and colonization. Proposals for panels (3-5 presenters) must include: 1) title of the panel and a collective summary of 300 words on the panel\u2019s theme, including the title of each individual work 2) a 250-word abstract for the presentation of each speaker 3) mailing address 4) phone number 5) email and 6) institutional affiliation of each presenter. Panels with four presenters or less may be completed with other relevant presentations.<\/p>\n Proposals will be accepted now through the final deadline of November 30, 2016. A mandatory non-refundable registration fee of $150 for scholars and $100 for graduate students must be paid immediately upon the acceptance of the abstract. This conference fee includes conference t-shirt and bag, admission to the panels, workshops, and special events, as well as transportation to and from the hotel and conference events. Registration also includes breakfast all three days, dinner on Friday night, lunch on Saturday, a banquet with DJ and open bar Saturday evening, and a closing celebration at Dr. Falola\u2019s house including dinner and DJ. All participants must raise the funding to attend the conference, including registration fee, transportation and accommodation. The conference and the University of Texas at Austin does not provide any form of sponsorship or financial support, however the Holiday Inn Austin Town Lake will have a special rate for conference participants, and transportation between the hotel and the university is included. Contact conference coordinators Farid Leonardo Su\u00e1rez and Dr. Kenneth E. Kalu for questions and more information: africaconference2017@gmail.com<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Call For Papers 17th Annual Africa Conference at the University of Texas at Austin (March 31-April 2, 2017 Austin, TX) Convened by: Dr. Toyin Falola, Department of History, UT Austin \u201cRupturing Colonial Legacies: Colonialisms and Decolonizations in Africa and the … Continue reading
\n(March 31-April 2, 2017 Austin, TX)
\nConvened by: Dr. Toyin Falola, Department of History, UT Austin<\/p>\n
\nWhile overt colonization ended with the official independence of African and Asian countries during the twentieth century, contemporary forms of imperialism and globalization perpetuate colonial inequities and structures of power, epistemology, subjectivity, and visuality. The political-economic\/social\/inte
\nInternational trade agreements and their discontents.
\nDevelopment, underdevelopment, and poverty.
\nNatural resource management and development via extractive economies.
\nProperty, property rights, and land reform (including agrarian policies).
\nEducation policies.
\nUrbanization and gentrification.
\nInternational agencies (African Union, U.N., World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, etc).
\nAfrican political and economic relationships to the Americas, Asia, and Europe.
\nTransnationalism, immigration, and citizenship.
\nMigration and memory.
\nFormal and informal economies (including transnational labor and remittances).
\nReverse migrations.
\nForms of national and transnational protest.
\nPolice brutality.
\nHuman rights and contemporary forms of slavery.
\nOngoing Black and Indigenous genocide\/epistemicide.
\nResponses to Intellectual, Epistemic, and Cultural Colonialisms:<\/p>\n
\nPluriversalism in Africa and the Diaspora.
\nNational and transnational postcolonialisms.
\nAfro-pessimisms and Afro-optimisms.
\nAfro-futurism and the Afro-imaginative.
\nAfrican and Afro-Caribbean political thought.
\nAfrican and African Diaspora Marxisms.
\nHistorical and contemporary Black nationalisms.
\nHistorical and contemporary pan-Africanisms.
\nEpistemicide and epistemic resistance.
\nLinguistic colonialisms.
\nOrality, oral histories, and non-written cultural transmissions.
\nEndangered languages and language revitalization.
\nKinship networks.
\nRadical pedagogies.
\nAfrican and African Diaspora critiques of Social Science and Humanities theories\/methodologies.
\nLocal and transnational networks of cultural and knowledge production.
\nNew social movements and social media.
\nVisuality, media, and cultural representations.
\nGastronomic and culinary cultural transmissions.
\nResponses to Racial, Gendered, and Sexual Colonialisms:<\/p>\n
\nAfro-Indigeneity, Afro-Latinidad, and Afro-Asian experiences and theories.
\nRace and identity politics.
\nWomen’s movements in the global south.
\nReproductive rights in Africa and the African Diaspora.
\nBlackness, sexualities, and sexual politics.
\nGendered labor and poverty.
\nThe role of colonial gender norms and sexual violence in colonization.
\nThe role of gender and sexual justice in decolonization.
\nTransnational women of color and third world feminisms (including their relationship to first world and white feminisms).
\nAfrican and African Diaspora feminist, Queer, and Trans theories and epistemologies.
\nTransnational Black feminist, Queer, and Trans theorizations of the nation-state.
\nAlternatives to the heteropatriarchal nuclear family.
\nNon-binary, ambiguity, alterity, and\/or fluidity of gender identities.
\nVisual Colonialisms and Artistic and Performed Decolonizations:<\/p>\n
\nNew media and social media.
\nAfrican and African Diaspora cinema and film.
\nPublic art (both state-sanctioned and informal).
\nPlastic arts and artistic livelihoods.
\nDance and popular cultures.
\nTraditional and ancestral musical and artistic expression.
\nArtistic and performed critiques of modernity and the nation-state.
\nCultural and artistic tourism.
\nCultural and artistic appropriations.
\nThe politics and economics of musical and artistic production.
\nMusic, art, and political\/social movements.
\nMusic, art, and gender and sexuality.
\nBody art and bodily modification.
\nReligious Colonialisms and Religio-Spiritual Decolonizations:<\/p>\n
\nChallenging the narrative of secular modernity.
\nReligious political movements.
\nIndigenous and ancestral African religions.
\nSyncretic religions of the African diaspora.
\nAfrican, African Diaspora, and Indigenous religio-spiritual critiques of the nation-state and modernity.
\nIslam in Africa and the Diaspora.
\nIslamophobia.
\nAfrican and African Diaspora Judaisms.
\nAfrican and African Diaspora religions and gender\/sexuality.
\nReligious and religio-spiritual art, music, and cultural production.
\nReligious and religio-spiritual healing traditions.
\nBiomedical\/Technological Colonialisms and Embodied Decolonizations:<\/p>\n
\nWestern biomedicine and racial\/gendered\/sexual violence.
\nForced sterilizations and scientific experimentation.
\nHistoricizing and decolonizing biology.
\nTraditional and ancestral medicinal practices.
\nEmbodied knowledges and bodily transmissions of knowledge.
\nAfrican and African Diaspora critiques of the Cartesian mind\/body divide.
\nPediatrics and infant mortality.
\nFood crises, hunger, and malnutrition.
\nSubstance abuse.
\nIntergenerational trauma, memory, and affect.
\nCommunicable disease management and public health.
\nHistories of medical violence.
\nDecolonizing psychological sciences.
\nEpigenetics.
\nGenetic ancestry testing.
\nEach individual proposal must include: 1) title of the work, and an abstract of 250 words. 2) name of the presenter (with the surname underlined) 3) mailing address 4) number phone 5) email 6) institutional affiliation 7) three to five keywords that best characterize the themes and topics relevant to your submission.<\/p>\n